Production of Writing ACT English Practice
Authored by Dana Bourgeois
English
10th - 12th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on the production of writing component of ACT English, targeting advanced editing and revision skills at the 11th-12th grade level. The questions assess students' ability to make sophisticated decisions about word choice, sentence structure, paragraph organization, and essay development. Students must demonstrate mastery of rhetorical effectiveness by selecting options that best accomplish specific writer goals, evaluating the impact of adding or deleting textual elements, and determining logical sequencing of ideas. The core concepts required include understanding authorial purpose and audience, recognizing how specific details contribute to or detract from main ideas, evaluating transitional elements and their effectiveness, and applying principles of coherence and unity in extended passages. Students need strong analytical reasoning skills to weigh multiple plausible options and select the choice that best serves the writer's intended purpose within the broader context of each passage. Created by Dana Bourgeois, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 10-12. This quiz serves as targeted practice for students preparing for the ACT English section, specifically addressing the production of writing domain that comprises approximately one-third of the test. Teachers can utilize this assessment as a diagnostic tool to identify students' strengths and weaknesses in revision strategies, or as focused practice following instruction on rhetorical skills and editing techniques. The quiz works effectively as a timed practice session to simulate testing conditions, as homework to reinforce classroom lessons on writing craft, or as a review activity before standardized testing. This assessment directly supports Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.1 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3, which emphasize command of language conventions and the application of knowledge about how language functions in different contexts to make effective choices for meaning and style.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The writer wants to suggest that the art of the fresco had been in decline previous to Rivera. Which choice best accomplishes that goal?
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engaged in
influenced
revived
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CCSS.L.2.1D
CCSS.L.3.1E
CCSS.L.4.1B
CCSS.L.5.1.B-D
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Make the best choice for the underlined portion "32"
No Change
Rivera should wield more political power for his belief that controversy attracted the working class.
Rivera for his controversy attracted belief that the working class should wield more political power.
Rivera attracted controversy for his belief that the working class should wield more political power.
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CCSS.L.11-12.3A
CCSS.L.7.1C
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If the underlined phrase numbered 39 were deleted, the sentence would primarily lose a detail that...
repeats information found elsewhere in the sentence
is necessary for the sentence to be grammatically complete
provides new and relevant information to the sentence
is ambiguous and unnecessary to the sentence
Tags
CCSS.L.4.1F
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The writer is thinking of added the following phrase to the end of the sentence preceding 42 (changing the period after industries to a comma):
such as medicine, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.
Should the writer make this addition here?
Yes, because it offers relevant examples that help to specify a broad term.
Yes, because it helps explain how the panels were physically constructed.
No, because it provides a sampling of industries rather than a full listing.
No, because it digresses from the main point of the sentence.
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CCSS.L.1.2C
CCSS.L.5.2A
CCSS.L.7.2A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Make the best choice for the underlined portion numbered 44.
No Change
Despite this,
Regardless,
Delete the underlined portion
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CCSS.L.2.1E
CCSS.L.3.1A
CCSS.L.3.1G
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which choice would best express the narrator's positive reaction to speaking with Joan and the narrator's fondness for her friend? (48)
No change
she said that she would rearrange her schedule so that we could meet.
she told me that she immediately recognized my voice.
her quick words and the sound of her laugh surprised me.
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CCSS.L.3.2C
CCSS.L.4.2B
CCSS.L.6.3A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This question refers to the paragraph preceding 51. Which of the following sequences of sentences makes Paragraph 3 most logical?
no change
1,3,2
2,1,3
3,2,1
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CCSS.L.9-10.1A
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